Volunteers needed -- Automated Image Testing for flavors

[Mike Lloyd]

I have two G5s, a G4 and a 4U G1 I can donate if someone wants to pay for
shipping or hosting.

Mike.

On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 at 08:36 Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>
wrote:

> On 08/01/2015 09:19 AM, Sujeevan (svij) Vijayakumaran wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am 31.07.2015 um 22:32 schrieb Nicholas Skaggs:
> >> -svij and shrini agreed to setup a test jenkins instance to help answer
> >> our lingering questions on what we need. Specifically they'll be
> looking at
> >> where should we host this?
> >> can we test in the cloud?
> >> what type of setup should we have (how many slaves, how many instances)?
> >> and trying to get us all setup with a jenkins instance we can add jobs
> >> to and iterate on moving forward.
> >>
> > I've set up an Jenkins-Master server today, but there isn't anything yet
> > (http://jenkins.svij.org). It runs on digital ocean (for 10$/month +
> > 2$/month for backups)
> >
> > I also had a look into the tests to check the other questions. The sad
> > thing is, that we can't host this on digitalocean, because digitalocean
> > doesn't support nested kvm virtualisation. The tests do use local kvm on
> > the host machine.
> >
> > We have three options now:
> >
> >   * rent a physical machine, where we can run the tests on local kvm
> >   * buy a physical machine and host that somewhere (e.g. at someones
> home…)
> >   * rent a amazon ec2 instance (which is virtualized but uses hvm with
> xen)
> >
> > All three options are kind of expensive. The first option probably needs
> > a contract for atleast a year (depends on the provider). IMHO the best
> > solution is to use amazon ec2. We could write a script which starts an
> > fresh ec2 instance and runs the tests. After that we can drop the ec2
> > instance again. Running the ec2 instance (t2.medium with 2GB RAM) 24/7
> > would nearly cost 40$… but they were idling most of the time anyway. So
> > the best and cheapest option is to only use them, when there are new iso
> > images to test. The jenkins master server needs to run 24/7, that could
> > continue to run on digital ocean.
> >
> > I don't have experience with amazon aws/ec2, if theres something wrong,
> > please correct me.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sujeevan
> >
> Sujeevan, thanks for looking into this! While I see there's some tricks
> available to allow for nested virtualization, do we know this will
> actually work? Can anyone comment if they've used things like
> xen-blanket in the past for this?
>
> On the other options, I'm open to feedback. Does anyone have suggested
> hardware or hosting since we are looking more and more like we need
> physical servers for this? Those with jenkins experience, what about the
> thought of keeping master as a cloud server, and have a physical machine
> be the slave that is located in someone's house or hosted?
>
> Nicholas
>
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